Rasaq Malik's - In another world

A little boy alone in a sandy playground 

In another world I want to be a father without
passing through the eternal insanity of mourning
my children, without experiencing the ritualof watching my children return home as bodies
folded like a prayer mat, without spending my
nights telling them the stories of a hometown
where natives become aliens searching fora shelter. I want my children to spread a mat
outside my house and play without the wallsof houses ripped by rifles. I want to watch my children
grow to recite the name of their homeland like Lord’s
Prayer, to frolic in the streets without being hunted like
animals in the bush, without being mobbed to death.In another world I want my children to tame grasshoppers
in the field, to play with their dolls in the living room,to inhale the fragrance of flowers waving as wind blows,
to see the birds measure the sky with their wings.